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Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin

Gribbin explores our biological history to show how complexity can arise out of simplicity. Chaos leads to complexity which leads to life. The interesting things happen at the edge of complexity; in chaotic systems, minute differences in the initial conditions lead to huge differences in outcome

What I got out of it

Common theme – explains complex/complicated objects by breaking down to its simplest parts and begin by explaining these

Common theme – emergence, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Gribbin describes many of the shared, common components of life and different systems

Chaos begets complexity, complexity begets life

World starts witht the simple and eventually leads to the complex

Chaos and complexity based on two simple ideas – sensitivity of a system to its given starting condition and feedback

There are simple, orderly laws underpinning the confusion of the world